A 15-month-old boy last night became the third child to die after a house fire in North Wales that had already claimed the lives of his mother and her nephew and niece.

Charlie Timbrell died at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool last night as police officers continued to question a man and a woman in connection with the fire in Prestatyn, North Wales.

The boy and his father, Liam Timbrell, were rescued from the blaze in the first-floor flat in which his mother, Lee-Anna Shiers, 20, her nephew, Bailey Allen, 4, and niece, Skye Allen, 2, died on Friday